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Opinion

Opinion: Successful climate change policy will demand brilliant leadership

By Dave Dickey / Big Ag Watch | April 24, 2019

Whoever emerges as leading U.S. lights to develop policy will need to take into consideration just how the deck is stacked against implementing climate change policy that can make a difference and what cracks to exploit to save Earth from itself.

Legislators request new tariff exclusion process for U.S. companies

By Kaolin Sewell/The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | November 15, 2018

Thousands of companies have sought to be excluded from tariffs on goods imported from China while dozens of members of Congress have sought to make the process better.

Government

Democratic senators call for insider trading investigation into presidential adviser Carl Icahn’s renewable fuel credits investment

By Robert Holly | May 10, 2017

A group of eight Democratic senators on Tuesday called upon three federal departments to investigate whether billionaire investor — and adviser to President Donald Trump — Carl Icahn violated insider trading laws for his activity in the renewable fuel credits market.

Congress

New report by House Republicans could preview changes to federal food stamp program

By Johnathan Hettinger/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | December 7, 2016

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R — Wisc.) has made his intentions to reform entitlement programs clear, and this report shows several ways that could happen in the SNAP program.

Congress

Advocacy group grades Congress on food policy

By Robert Holly | October 19, 2016

The Washington D.C.-based advocacy group Food Policy Action released its National Food Policy Scorecard for the 114th Congress Monday. The scorecard is meant to evaluate policymakers on how they voted on “critically important” food issues from throughout the past year.

GMOs

GMO debate reaches new peak with ‘voluntary labeling’ bill

By Robert Holly | August 4, 2015

The U.S. House of Representatives passed federal legislation making GMO labeling voluntary. Now in the Senate, the proposed legislation would override all state-level labeling mandates if it becomes law. Those against the federal bill, known as the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015, refer to it as the DARK Act.

Congress

U.S. House of Representatives moves on GMO labeling bill

By Midwest Center Staff | July 14, 2015

A bill that would prohibit state-level legislation on GMO labeling took a step forward in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. Known as the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015, the bill seeks to create overarching federal legislation that only makes labeling optional. The bill was originally introduced in March by republican Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas.

Congress

Federal spending bill primed to boost food safety

By Robert Holly | December 16, 2014

When Congress approved a nearly $1 trillion spending bill late last week, it also approved increased funding to federal food-safety programs. Under the new 2015 appropriations bill, two U.S. Department of Agriculture agencies will receive an estimated $40 million in funding.

Agribusiness

Farm Bill roundup: 7 stories that help explain the new bill

By Robert Holly | February 11, 2014

This roundup provides seven articles that can help you better understand the Farm Bill. Additionally, it also contains a gallery of central Illinois farmers that share their thoughts and opinions of the new Farm Bill.

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Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism.

The American Farm Bureau Federation claims it’s the ‘Voice of Agriculture.’ These groups beg to differ.

Database: Tracking Covid-19’s impact on meatpacking workers and industry

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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat inspectors and graders perform their mission.

SERESTO: what we’ve discovered so far about the popular collars linked to pet injuries and deaths

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